That is a wise decision IMO. Otherwise we would have had 500+ states. Huge mess. And dont be under impressions about Jinnah. Why was he forced into it? It meant he would rather sacrifice the idea of his beloved India(he always claimed he loved India and it should have Hindustan and Pakistan as parts) for his ego? I dont even want to talk about it. He is a hypocrite. How can an equal society that cannot be achieved in India be achieved in his new entity?
Democracy did not give you your India. The expediency of Sardar Patel and his peers did. I suggest the same should be done in Kashmir. Somehow get the entire J&K under India or at least finalize the existing part into Indian constitution and then give them complete democracy. Till then they have ad-hoc democracy which is not that bad. It does help in administration with all its limitations on including separatists into mainstream(Those hawks their own reasons for pissing off Indian attempts at reconciliation). The key is convincing Kashmiris that we are same people and we can guarantee their freedom. For that BJP should stop threatening to remove the article 370 protection for J&K.
So in essence ajtr, people like you idealists are good only for protests and statements like Ms. Roy. You might mean well but you dream of paradise with no idea about how to make it happen. I would want people like you to be there, you play your role well, bring governments back on their toes. If people like you raised your voice when unreasonable amount of force was being used on Kashmiris, then they would be so angry about India.
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